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Orca strands herself on aquarium platform in show of 'bizarre behavior,' animal advocates say
By Ben Guarino
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Reporter covering the practice and culture of science
The killer whale sits atop a concrete platform at a Canary Island aquarium, belly squashed and head slowly bobbing for three minutes of grainy footage.
The Dolphin Project, the nonprofit animal-advocacy organization that released the video, says the whale — a captive female orca named Morgan — slid out of the water after a performance at Spain's Loro Parque aquarium. There, the group says, she remained for 10 minutes.
"One would never see this bizarre behavior in nature," said Richard O'Barry, Dolphin Project founder and an animal activist who once trained dolphins for the TV show "Flipper," in a statement. The Dolphin Project writes it couldn't explain why Morgan left the water but called the scene "unsettling."
Depending upon who reviews the film, the footage shows unnatural activity or, possibly, a cetacean suicide attempt. Or it is simply normal orca behavior, as Loro Parque described it in a statement. (One orca expert contacted by The Washington Post declined to comment, arguing that devoid of context it is not possible to infer the animal's intention.)
[Tilikum, the SeaWorld killer whale at the center of 'Blackfish,' is slowly dying]
"It is absolutely illogical and absurd to assume that the length and the quality of such video would be sufficient to make a conclusion and declaration of such nature," the aquarium wrote. "A voluntary stranding is a natural behavior of orcas living in the wild. For example, in the region of Valdes, Argentina, there is a group of orcas that has learned to hunt the cubs of sea lions in the shallow waters near the shore."
In general, when whales strand themselves — especially en masse — it is a phenomenon without scientific consensus. "There are lots of reasons for group strandings, but no agreements," Oregon State University marine biologist Scott Baker told Livescience in 2010. Rob Deaville, manager of the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Program in the United Kingdom, told New Scientist in a January interview that they may come ashore after becoming disoriented by marine noise or pollution; for individual strandings, disease, injury and old age have have been implicated.
Beachings are, unfortunately, often fatal. In many cases, wildlife veterinarians say that the best procedure is to euthanize stranded whales, even if they are discovered before dehydration sets in. Whales are so massive that they rely on water to support their bodies; on land, the whales' bulks compress their organs and other tissues, New Scientist notes, flooding their bodies with a protein called myoglobin that is toxic to kidneys. After an hour on land, the kidney damage may be so severe the animals will not survive even if they are returned to the sea.
[SeaWorld is ending its killer whale shows in San Diego]
Orcas do not appear to be an exception to the rule: A 2013 study of North Pacific orca strandings dating back to 1925 found that just 12 percent of killer whales survive being beached, though it was unclear if the other 88 percent had died on the land or at sea — historically few killer whales, the report notes, had necropsies.
Whether or not the video of Morgan shows an actual stranding attempt is uncertain, and the aquarium says that its whales can safely exit the water for short amounts of time. "The orcas at Loro Parque are trained to leave the water on their own accord," the aquarium wrote in its statement. "This behavior is used for manifold purposes, for example, for presenting the animals to the public, for conducting corporal check-ups, for inspecting their blowholes, as well as for testing hearing abilities of the orcas."
But the video has resurfaced the controversy around Morgan's captivity. She is the only wild-born killer whale of the aquarium's six orcas, all of which are on loan from SeaWorld. Morgan, malnourished and dehydrated, was captured off the coast of the Netherlands in 2010. Many countries have regulations barring capture of marine mammals, but Morgan was taken under a "rescue, rehabilitation and release" permit, according to the Free Morgan Foundation, a group founded by marine biologist Ingrid Visser to advocate for the whale's release from Loro Parque.
[SeaWorld ends captive breeding program, says current batch of killer whales 'will be the last]
That Morgan remains at Loro Parque has long been a bone of contention, with critics saying that the whale is being held illegally. A paper published in the journal of Transnational Environmental Law in 2012 concluded that "Dutch authorities erred legally in making their final decision" to send Morgan to the aquarium, rather than releasing the animal once she was rehabilitated.
Visser told New Zealand's Stuff.co.nz that Morgan's activity in the video is "fundamentally wrong," adding, "Nowhere in the world do any wild orca slide out onto concrete platforms."
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Photo Essay: It's Déjà Vu for Hollywood's Most Famous Imperiled Intersection (Updated for 2020)
[Last updated 12/26/20 11:14 AM PT]
Paradise was already paved once. And they're trying to do doing it again.
Circa 1927 (Photo: Los Angeles Public Library Images)
At the intersection of Sunset and Crescent Heights, there once stood the 1913 estate formerly known as Hayvenhurst (named after real estate developer William H. Hay), later renamed the Garden of Alla for actress Alla Nazimova, and finally known as the Garden of Allah Hotel, the so-called "playground to the stars."
Photo: Julius Shulman, 1960 (© J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10))
That is, until banker Bart Lytton bought the place, and demolished the Old Hollywood estate in 1959 to build the flagship branch of his Lytton Savings & Loan in its place.
And now, somebody else is trying to tear tearing down the former Lytton Savings building (subsequently Great Western Savings, now Chase Bank) for the next big thing: a mixed-use behemoth designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Is this intersection cursed, or what? Maybe it's divine retribution, or karma, or just a matter of what goes around comes around. But just as we're starting to learn to cherish the bank building with the zig-zag roof, it seems as though we're about to lose it.
This 1960 Kurt Meyer-designed structure with the accordion-style roof (just recently approved as a landmark) is an early example of the modern architecture that typified bank buildings in the post-WWII era.
But that doesn't mean it's safe. We've lost other Googie facades in recent years.
It doesn't feel very modern anymore. Well, not Frank Gehry modern, anyway.
It doesn't really tell the story of the "Sunset Strip," which it's located at the eastern edge of.
And Chase banks are so prevalent on a national level that maybe it's hard to imagine any Chase Bank being historic...
...except for the fact that many of today's Chase Bank locations in Southern California actually are architecturally, culturally, and historically significant sites (most of them former Home Savings and Loan branches) featuring murals and mosaics by Millard Sheets, sculptures, stained glass, and other public art.
I actually wasn't much interested in this Chase Bank—despite it being in my neighborhood—until I found out that there was some art glass by Roger Darricarrere inside.
Up to this point, I'd only seen his dalle-de-verre artwork in ecclesiastical settings.
But since some people treat money like religion and banks like their church, I guess it's fitting.
In this case, the "chunks" of colored glass are embedded in lots of concrete rather than lead...
...creating a three-dimensional wall mural that actually wraps around the rear of the main lobby, now tucked behind some cubicles.
Since it's not a window but more of a screen, it's artificially lit from the inside—but only part of it.
But with daylight streaming through the glass walls that face Sunset Boulevard, you can see the tell-tale marks of the glass having been hammered and cleaved...
...and, of course, the bubbles often found in the craftsman's faceted glass works.
The screen stands eight feet tall and 50 feet wide, which is pretty monumental for Darricarrere's first commercial commission. Up close, the concrete is reminiscent of the textile block designs of Frank Lloyd Wright (and, later, Lloyd Wright).
Above it, the folded plate roof design is reflected in the ceiling, each zig and zag illuminated more loyally than the pieces of glass in the screen.
I'd like to think that if the Sunset Strip Chase Bank does get approved for demolition, the faceted glass screen will be saved and relocated somewhere that people can still see it. But we've lost buildings containing a monumental Darricarrere glass work in the past, it ended up at public auction—and then on eBay.
Well, the bank was approved for demolition—and any hopes of a "stay" were dashed when the sculptures outside the structure (David Greene's "The Family") were removed in early December 2020. Wehoville reports that the statues will be returned to the site at some point.
A peek through the window reveals that the art glass screens have been dismantled from their backlighting panels, but their current location is TBC.
In the meantime, all Chase signage has been removed.
Demolition seems imminent.
Here are the rest of the photos I snapped on Christmas Day...
...on what will probably be my last visit to the site...
...while the structure is still standing.
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jim December 27, 2020 at 4:24 PM
Sadness.... the Gehry monstrosity will have none of the grace and simple beauty of those accordion roof lines.
curious1 December 27, 2020 at 5:01 PM
it's too bad that we don't consider adapting or incorporating existing buildings into new designs here in LA
tim mellin December 27, 2020 at 11:10 PM
If Gehry is such an architectural genius, you think he could figure some way to incorporate the Garden of Allah and the accordian design into his own design, in some way, as well as find a place in it for the colorful glass.
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Santa Cruz enacts curfew on famed 'Main Beach' near boardwalk
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Effectively immediately, overnight camping will no longer be allowed on Santa Cruz's famed Main Beach, according to city officials.
The city council voted Wednesday night to implement a curfew that essentially forces the homeless who had been living there to find a new place to sleep.
RELATED: Santa Cruz officials working to clear large homeless camp
"It's upsetting when anybody asks you to leave any particular spot that you're comfortable in," said Santa Cruz street performer Marty Mirabal, who pitched his tent nearly two weeks ago. "I feel more comfortable living outside. I like having more freedom in my life to go about doing the things I want to do."
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RELATED: City and county of Santa Cruz propose joint action plan to help homeless
In recent weeks, nearly two dozen tents have popped up near the wharf. Some say the increase could be connected to what used to be the old Ross Camp, a densely populated homeless community near Highways 1 and 17 that shut down in May.
City leaders decided to pass the ordinance citing concerns for public health and safety.
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Juan Carlos, Spain's disgraced former king, may be in Abu Dhabi, reports suggest
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A week after going into exile, the scandal-hit former monarch is said to be staying in a $12,000-a-night suite in the Emirates palace hotelAt first it was Portugal, then the Dominican Republic, but now Abu Dhabi is firming as the most likely place of residence for Spain's scandal-hit former king Juan Carlos.On Saturday, Spain's NIUS media group published an image that showed a man...
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Continue reading the main storyAlbert Solà says he is the son of Juan Carlos, Spain's former king. He has spent much of his life investigating what sounds like a modern fairy tale.Albert Solà Jimenez is one of an estimated 300,000 people who were orphaned during Spain's dictatorship, which ended in the 1970s. But hi...
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Independent investigation launched into former PM's lobbying for now-collapsed firmNo 10 is to a launch an independent investigation into former prime minister David Cameron's lobbying for the now-collapsed Greensill and the role of the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill in government.The independent review, commis...
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Palace refuses to reveal former monarch's location one day after he announced exile The whereabouts of Spain's scandal-hit former king remained shrouded in mystery on Tuesday, one day after it was announced that Juan Carlos would be leaving the country in a bid to protect the crown from mounting scrutiny over his financial dealings. On Monday, Spain's royal house published a letter sent by...
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Hello to all ... I am happy to join du-community. I have played on all of the MH servers, but DU is the best.
I have played on all of the MH servers, but DU is the best.
So far which are your favourite maps on MH?
All of the maps are unique and interesting, but my most favorite would be: Nara, morose, Serenity, Node Invaders, Hot Foot, Queen Sisters, Underwater Assault, Ortican, Skytown and some others.
Great, finally somebody who likes NodeInvaders, DoDo's best map (his other maps are also awesome i think, like LavaTower and Chthonian). I wish i play more on that map, and i will vote it more if i see you online.
Morose is another gem, what few likes. Memorized.
Ortican seems to be good, but rarely played, CommITA tutored me how to play it effectively.
How about Terraniux-47 or NaliC?
Funny story with Ortican ... ask Commander sometime!
Commander and I ran around Ortican for over an hour one night after we accidentally shot the Nali and all he would do is cower instead of let us in!! lololol Great times!!
I always ask Vlad when we get stuck on a map, he seems to know every map well.
The maps LavaTower and Chthonian are very good. About the maps of NaliC and Terraniux: I would classify these maps as HARD. Not for one player. Here you need a team. In the near future, I plan to introduce DEXIE to the NaliC map. She hasn't played it yet.
Another great map is Retarded! Also, not for one player.
Oh, i love to play NaliC and Terraniux-47 in single player mode! They are so fun. Just need to know the map, the items, weapons, monsters palce and some skills.
About NaliC i think you are a bit late: Dexie told me that yesterday she was in a Disco room with ITA. She thinks that was NaliC.
However, I know only 5 Disco rooms in all of the maps now: Indiana, NaliC, Dormant, BoxesRemade2, AfterDark2. And of course Terras huge Disco Empire (i dont remember the maps correct name) thats a wonderful place with swimming pools, bars, DJ, dozen of musics, traps, etc. Its really awesome!
AfterDark2 update will arrive soon, just hoping BlackWolf will do Terraniux's ask to upload the new version. I think there will be an updated Disco with new musics. Sadly it looks that the new Partycrushers map will not be ready for this years Halloween.
The good: Collab map is still under build, i thought its a dead project, but Dem and DoDo working on it. Its really awesome, and it has some new contents we never seen in MH before.
Edit: You wonder why Disco rooms are important for me, well, im an almost total deaf person, but its another story. Mind if im lookin insanely attacking in some areas where tons of monsters, i cant hear when skaarj scratching my back lol. Musics and disco areas reminds me on my younger years.
Thank you for the new map information. Dexie and I tried to play the map of your recommendation-Collab-map yesterday. Tentacles with instant shots and rocks is like a land of eternal sunset. The hand of the same master is visible. The map is big and interesting. But not ready yet. I always have great respect for the people who create the maps.
I'm very upset that you have a hearing problem. I truly sympathize. I'll keep this in mind in the joint game.


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'Near Death Experience:' Bus Driver Arrested for DUI After Passengers Called Police
Passengers forced the driver to pull over on the highway for their safety, according to an online post
By Vince Lattanzio	• Published June 9, 2016 • Updated on June 10, 2016 at 11:21 am
A bus full of passengers were stranded on Interstate 95 in Bucks County after their driver was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence, Pennsylvania State Police said.
The bus, packed with 55 passengers, was headed for New York City from Philadelphia's Chinatown late Saturday night when passengers forced the driver to pull over on the interstate for driving erratically, police said.
Pennsylvania State Police and Lower Makefield Police both responded and the driver was taken into custody, police said. DUI charges are pending against the 37-year-old driver, state police said.
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Jeremy Walker, the bus company's owner, tells NBC10 the driver has been fired, but would not provide additional comment.
In a Yelp! post to a profile for bus operator Focus Travel, a woman called the trip "near death experience."
The woman, posting under the handle Daniella T., said the driver nearly crashed the bus three times before passengers forced the driver to stop. They then called police for help, according to the message.
"Everyone thought we would die because the bus nearly tipped over," she wrote.
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Last August, a bus was involved in a hit-and-run near Philadelphia Police headquarters. The driver continued on a trip to Washington, D.C. and said he didn't know he hit anyone.
Earlier that summer, a driver was fired after passengers recorded him texting while driving.
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Just fair warning here: This posting has nothing to do with selling and may contain material that might seem offensive to some bloggers. For those of you who follow this blog, you've seen several postings in the past regarding science and critical thinking. Here's a timely editorial as we celebrate the end of 2011.
I was perusing CNN on my iPhone4S (shameless plug) on Christmas Day (12/25/2011) and noticed an article about Pope Benedict XVI Christmas Mass message. While I'm not Roman Catholic, the Pope is the leader of one of the world's largest organized religions and I thought, "Why not hear what the 84-year old Pontiff has to say."
While his message started out innocently enough, he turned in short order to the ". . . commercial celebration of Christmas." "Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God's humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity." If I believed in a super-natural God of the Catholics (which I don't - nor do I believe in Zeus, Mohamed, Brahma, Vishnu or any other God for that matter), I'd probably be concerned over the capitalization of the holiday season too. OK, still willing to read more.
"If we want to find the God who appeared as a child, then we must dismount from the high horse of our 'enlightened' reason," he said. "... In this spirit let us celebrate the liturgy of the holy night, let us strip away our fixation on what is material, on what can be measured and grasped." Really? Dismount from the high horse of reason? Isn't "reasoning" the only thing that got us out of the Middle Ages? Isn't "reasoning" the thing that provides electricity for the Pope's bedchambers? Isn't "reasoning" the foundation for advances in medicine, relieving the suffering of millions of people, feeding the hungry? He wants us to move AWAY from reason?
The Pope suggests that we "strip away our fixation on what can be measured and grasped?" Just go ahead and stop soft-pedaling here. "Measured and grasped" = Science. It couldn't be more clear. The Pope is clearly delivering the message that we should de-emphasize scientific process and thought. What utter nonsense and what makes this out-right dangerous is the billions of Catholic followers that will hear this message loud and clear. Make no mistake: If the Pontiff found out tomorrow that science discovered some artifact that supported his religious beliefs, the Church would have this published on every newspaper throughout the world. Unfortunately, when it comes to other scientific proof that's "measured and grasped," (for example, that the earth is really 4.6 billion years old) the Church claims that science cannot be used to measure religious faith/belief. This common separation of religion and science is known as Separation of Magisterium and is absurd. Why can't we ask critical questions that only science can answer? Why can't we ask for evidence of a young earth? Why can't we propose a conflicting hypothesis to whether or not God exists?
The answer to these questions should be, "We can and should." Unfortunately, those shrouded in belief and faith cannot answer any of these questions with anything other than, "religion/faith/belief is sacred."
As you go to sleep tonight, in your heated/air-conditioned home, and after a nice meal at your favorite restaurant, ask yourself what really impacts the way we live. What would life be like if the Crusades or Holocaust never ended? What would life be like without organized religion? John Lennon asked the question: "Imagine there's no heaven...and no religion too." He was assassinated for it. So were the thousands who died in 9/11. Terrorists? Of course, religious terrorists, all willing to go to a promised after-life for killing American infidels.
This holiday season is a time for reason, for understanding, for science, and for raising our consciousness.


Nearly all states require lawyers to take part in persevering with legal schooling either yearly or every 3 years. In nations the place holders of the primary legislation diploma traditionally use the title of physician (e.g. Peru, Brazil, Macau, Portugal, Argentina), J.D. holders who are attorneys will usually use the title of physician as effectively.


There are 2 kinds of Individual Members, Local (ILFIAP) or Regional (IRFIAP). These members cannot take part in Biennial and they do not have voting rights. If there is no Operational Member in the country, the IRFIAP are authorised to transmit the requests for patronages as well as the requests for distinctions. If there is no IRFIAP, the ILFIAP can manage the dossiers of patronages and distinctions themselves.Click on IRFIAP or ILFIAP to reach the address of the Individual Member.


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Q: What is technology to make our website available when user is offline? I've seen such technology as Whatsapp Web that we still can access even if we are not connect to the internet. It will show "Your computer not connected to internet" with html and css of that web rather than show the default browser error "No internet connection". My question is, what technology to make that possible?

A: ti is possible with Cache manifest in HTML5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_manifest_in_HTML5

A: Cache manifest in HTML5 is the thing that you are looking for.

<!—- test.html -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html manifest="cache.appcache">
<head>
  <title>Test</title>
  <script src="test.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css">
</head>
<body>
  Testing the manifest file.
</body>
</html>

some of the useful link that you can use.
Using_the_application_cache
A Beginner's Guide to Using the Application Cache

A: I know this technology under the name progressive web app and service-worker, in relation to webdesign.
article,
example with angular


thought that it would be a cutesy moment. Harris-Perry, MSNBC host and Wake Forest University professor of Politics and International Affairs interviewed Attorney General Eric Holder on-air last week.
Now if Harris-Perry had left her comment there, all would have been well and everyone would have considered that she was speaking as the Princess of Nerdland.
And he went on to embellish that analogy in his own way.
In the following days, assessments of Harris-Perry's "quack" question on ran from "stupid" to "creepy" to "humiliating." But in reality it was just a case of media fawning over an important person, and an attempt at humor.
Concerning our featured photo, a Google search of "Holder, duck" returned over 10,000 results on Amazon.com, and over 3,000 results on eBay.
So we couldn't resist showing you a few examples of… well…duck holders.


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This Memorial Day weekend, Shinedown breaks the record for most times as a guest co-host. Brent Smith hangs out with LA Lloyd for the band's 15th appearance. There's a lot to cover as Brent goes in-depth on the storyline of the album Attention Attention which takes the listener on a journey from the opening hit song "Devil" to the finale of "Brilliant." It's a great weekend to enjoy the music of LA Lloyd's favorite band and chances are yours as well!
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Q: Traversing all nodes of a multi-leveled JTree I have a JTree with DefaultTreeModel. I need to get to each node of it.
Imagine I have this tree:
[A]
 |-[B]
 |-[C]
 |-[D]
 |  |-[E]
 |     |-[F]
 |     |-[G]
 |     |-[H]
 |-[I]
 |-[J]
 |-[K]

I need to traverse it and print out:
   ---[A]---
   >[B]
   >[C]
   >---[D]---
   >>---[E]---
   >>>[F]
   >>>[G]
   >>>[H]
   >>+++[E]+++
   >+++[D]+++
   >[I]
   >[J]
   >[K]
   ---[A]---

So, I'm using
  java.util.Enumeration en = root.preorderEnumeration();

  while (en.hasMoreElements()) {}

But I can't come up with a working function. I need to put ---NODE NAME--- when starting a node and end the node with +++NODE NAME+++ and I can't menage to do that. I got it working to a point if only the a Parent node is not the last element of another Parent. But it breaks when the last node is also a parent. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit:
And now I noticed it wasn't even working as well as I thought. Here is my current output:
----root (81)----
name
time
displaySize
----New Group1----
BaseX
BaseY
----New Group2----
BaseRadius
----New Group3----
Angle
DistanceFromCenter
++++New Group3++++
PlayerSpeed
MouseX
MouseY
++++New Group3++++
PlayerX
PlayerY
BonusSpawned
actorTags
++++New Group3++++
BonusTime
BonusWhich
+++root+++

Edit2:
while (en.hasMoreElements()) {

    nodeTemp = node;
    node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) en.nextElement();

    String nodeName = node.toString();

    if (node.getChildCount() > 0) {

        System.out.println("---" + nodeName + "---");

    } else {

        if (nodeTemp.getChildCount() == 0 && nodeTemp.getParent() != node.getParent()) {
            System.out.println("+++" + nodeName + "+++");
            loopCount++;

        }

        System.out.println(nodeName);

    }

    loopCount++;

}

A: I solved it by ditching the Enumeration and building my own function:
    DefaultTreeModel model = (DefaultTreeModel) tree.getModel();
    DefaultMutableTreeNode root = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) model.getRoot();

    printNode(root);

public void printNode(DefaultMutableTreeNode node) {

    int childCount = node.getChildCount();

    System.out.println("---" + node.toString() + "---");

    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {

        DefaultMutableTreeNode childNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) node.getChildAt(i);
        if (childNode.getChildCount() > 0) {
            printNode(childNode);
        } else {
            System.out.println(childNode.toString());
        }

    }

    System.out.println("+++" + node.toString() + "+++");

}

A: Using recursion you could do something like this psuedocode

*

*Start at root

*If is a leaf
    - Print node name and return

*Print --- node name ----

*If node has children
    - recurse with each child (starting at 2)

*Print +++ Node name ++++

Edit My Version of a recursive method
public static void print(DefaultMutableTreeNode aNode)
{
    String name = aNode.toString();
    int level= aNode.getLevel();
    String placement = "";
    while (level > 0)
    {
        placement += ">";
        level--;
    }
    if(aNode.isLeaf())
    {
        System.out.println(placement + name);
        return;
    }

    System.out.println(placement + "--- " + name + " ---");
    for(int i = 0 ; i < aNode.getChildCount() ; i++)
    {
        print((DefaultMutableTreeNode)aNode.getChildAt(i));
    }
    System.out.println(placement + "+++ " + name + " +++");
}

This will give you > for the levels also for example my output was:
--- A ---
>--- B ---
>>C
>>--- D ---
>>>E
>>+++ D +++
>+++ B +++
>F
>G
>H
+++ A +++

A: Websearch "depth first tree walk" and/or "breadth first tree walk". The former is more common, but there are applications for the latter.
If the tree nodes are doubly-linked (if nodes can reach their parents as well as children), there are depth-first solutions whose only state is the current node. Otherwise, you'll need to maintain a stack (either as a data structure, or by walking recursively) so you can go back up after running out of siblings at a given level of a branch.


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package org.apache.camel.component.spring.security;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import javax.security.auth.Subject;

import org.apache.camel.CamelAuthorizationException;
import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.component.mock.MockEndpoint;
import org.apache.camel.test.spring.junit5.CamelSpringTestSupport;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken;
import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;
import org.springframework.security.core.GrantedAuthority;
import org.springframework.security.core.authority.SimpleGrantedAuthority;
import org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;

public class SpringSecurityAuthorizationPolicyTest extends CamelSpringTestSupport {

    @Test
    public void testAuthorizationPassed() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint end = getMockEndpoint("mock:end");
        end.expectedBodiesReceived("hello world");
        sendMessageWithAuthentication("jim", "jimspassword");
        end.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Test
    public void testAuthenticationFailed() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint end = getMockEndpoint("mock:end");
        end.expectedMessageCount(0);
        try {
            sendMessageWithAuthentication("jim", "jimspassword2");
            fail("we should get the access deny exception here");
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            // the exception should be caused by CamelAuthorizationException
            assertTrue(exception.getCause() instanceof CamelAuthorizationException, "Expect CamelAuthorizationException here");
        }
        end.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Test
    public void testAuthorizationFailed() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint end = getMockEndpoint("mock:end");
        end.expectedMessageCount(0);
        try {
            sendMessageWithAuthentication("bob", "bobspassword");
            fail("we should get the access deny exception here");
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            // the exception should be caused by CamelAuthorizationException
            assertTrue(exception.getCause() instanceof CamelAuthorizationException, "Expect CamelAuthorizationException here");
        }
        end.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetAuthorizationTokenFromSecurityContextHolder() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint end = getMockEndpoint("mock:end");
        end.expectedBodiesReceived("hello world");
        Authentication authToken = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken("jim", "jimspassword");
        SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authToken);
        template.sendBody("direct:start", "hello world");
        end.assertIsSatisfied();
        SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(null);

    }

    @Test
    public void testAuthorizationFailedWithWrongExplicitRole() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint end = getMockEndpoint("mock:end");
        end.expectedMessageCount(0);
        try {
            List<GrantedAuthority> authorities = Collections.singletonList(new SimpleGrantedAuthority("ROLE_BAD"));

            Authentication authToken = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken("jim", "jimspassword", authorities);

            Subject subject = new Subject();
            subject.getPrincipals().add(authToken);

            template.sendBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "hello world", Exchange.AUTHENTICATION, subject);
            fail("we should get the access deny exception here");
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            // the exception should be caused by CamelAuthorizationException
            assertTrue(exception.getCause() instanceof CamelAuthorizationException, "Expect CamelAuthorizationException here");
        }
        end.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    private void sendMessageWithAuthentication(String username, String password) {

        Authentication authToken = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(username, password);

        Subject subject = new Subject();
        subject.getPrincipals().add(authToken);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "hello world", Exchange.AUTHENTICATION, subject);

    }

    @Override
    protected AbstractXmlApplicationContext createApplicationContext() {
        return new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("/org/apache/camel/component/spring/security/SpringSecurityCamelContext.xml");
    }

}


The result of the intervention was indescribable. My family and those who saw me could notice it: inflation was almost imperceptible and – literally – not a single annoyance, not a simple sedative! A few days later, Dr. Ouzzani, who had been in the surgery while she took out the stitches, asked me if she hurt me: I made a negative gesture: She never knew the tears were due to the feeling experienced: all the previous fear and I could not believe the result! For all this, I hold them in high esteem and occupy a significant place in my memory. Again, to the persons mentioned and their team, I thank you.
On November 28th, the intervention took place with success (20 years ago). I was the second person to undergo this intervention. When the final prosthesis was placed after about a year, it felt like a dream to me. I only have words of gratitude to Dr Aparicio, for giving me the opportunity of this dream that changed my life, and for all the follow-up and attention. Also for your team and all the staff, they are great.


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Prices rise, partitions fall under new Utah liquor law
By MICHELLE L. PRICEAssociated Press
A trendy downtown Salt Lake City seafood restaurant started business Saturday with glass-smashing and champagne, a symbolic gesture in its emancipation from Utah's so-called "Zion Curtains" alcohol law.
"It feels fabulous and liberating. It's a hallelujah moment," said Joel LaSalle, owner of Current Fish & Oyster. "It'll make our restaurant twice as beautiful because you can actually see the $100,000 bar and wall."
The new liquor law went into effect Saturday, making wine, liquor and higher-alcohol beer more expensive while also allowing some restaurants to take down walls and partitions that were meant to prevent customers from seeing their alcoholic drinks being mixed and poured.
The broad liquor law passed in March eased a longtime requirement that drinks be prepared behind barriers known as "Zion Curtains," typically glass walls or back rooms. It's based on the premise that the barriers shield children from alcohol culture and what some perceive as the glamour of bartending, and prevents underage drinking.
The Zion Curtain nickname is a reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches its members to avoid alcohol and plays an influential role in state liquor policy.
The rule has been a longtime thorn in the side of Utah's restaurant industry, which has complained that the barriers can be ugly and awkward, and point out that children can still see customers drinking alcohol. They also argued the rule punished newer restaurants, because those built before 2009 were not required to have a barrier.
Under the new law, restaurants can stop hiding drinks behind glass barriers or in backrooms starting Saturday — if they choose one of two options to keep those under 21 away from bars: Seat them at least 10 feet (3 meters) from a bar, or at least 5 feet (1.5 meters) from a bar if the restaurant installs a half-wall or other structure about 3.5 feet (1 meter) tall.
Adult customers can sit at or near bars and watch drinks being made.
Restaurants that want to pick one of those paths will first need the alcohol control department to sign off on their changes and floor plans and meet with a compliance officer from the liquor department.
Terry Wood, spokesman for Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, did not know how many restaurants had taken steps to make those changes, but it was expected to be a small number.
Most restaurants are not required to do anything differently under the law, and eateries that must make adjustments have a year to do that.
The large dining room at Current Fish & Oyster offers plenty of room for a 10-foot (3-meter) buffer zone. LaSalle said that the wall is an eyesore and costs his restaurant thousands in sales each month because customers can't sit and enjoy a drink while chatting with the bartender hidden in a glass-paneled cubicle.
The law also raised the markup that the state makes on the case price of alcohol by 2 percentage points. Starting Saturday, the price markup will be 88 percent for liquor and wine and 66.5 for beer that has more than 4 percent of alcohol by volume.
After closing time Friday, workers went through the state's 44-state-run liquor stores to post new price tags on store shelves ahead of Saturday's openings.
The rising markup will generally cause retail prices to increase about 1 percent. For example, a $19.99 bottle of wine would cost $20.20 on Saturday.
The price increases don't apply to lower-alcohol beer, which is sold in grocery and convenience stores.
Some of the law's other changes took effect in May, including rules allowing alcohol to be sold an hour earlier — at 10:30 a.m. — on weekends and holidays.
Associated Press writers Rick Bowmer in Salt Lake City and Sally Ho in Las Vegas contributed.


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The Battleship Remembers Rear Admiral Richard D. Milligan
By Walt Urban
By Captain Walt Urban, USN (ret)
Liaison Officer, Battleship New Jersey
On June 28, 2018, Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) lost her 16th Commanding Officer, Rear Admiral Richard D. Milligan, USN (Ret.). His death at 81 years old was due to complications from dementia. Milligan and his wife of 56 years, Mary Bourke, ultimately retired to Pawleys Island, SC where he was active in the Red Cross, at his church Precious Blood and on the golf courses in the area. He was well respected by all those who knew or served with him in the Navy.
Prior to attaining the rank of Admiral, than Captain Milligan commanded battleship New Jersey from September 15, 1983 to September 7, 1985. Soon after assuming command, New Jersey was ordered to steam into the Mediterranean Sea, and take-up station off the coast of war-torn Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon would be New Jersey's 4th and final war, and as her CO, it was Captain Milligan's responsibility to ensure the newly recommissioned battleship lived-up to her motto to provide Firepower for Freedom, if needed.
New Jersey would eventually fire over 300 rounds from her 16" rifles (288 rounds on February 8, 1984) in support of Multinational Peacekeeping Forces before returning to her home port in Long Beach, CA in May 1984. Captain Milligan had accomplished the assigned mission, and it was now time to get the venerable battleship ready for yet another operational deployment. A much needed overhaul commenced during the summer of 1984 at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and it included the removal of center gun of number two 16" gun turret. This was the only time during the 1980's any of the 4 recommissioned IOWA class battleships had a 16" rifle replaced, and it was a first for battleship New Jersey since 1954. It fell on Captain Milligan to make sure the work was done successfully and without incident. No easy feat when you consider one of these rifles weigh 120 tons, is 68 feet long, and this kind of rifle replacement hadn't been done in 30 years.
Following her successful yard period, it was time for Captain Milligan to put the battleship and her crew through their paces, and make sure both were ready for whatever commitment would come next. Many of the crew who had been onboard New Jersey as members of her December 28, 1982 recommissioning crew had been replaced by new sailors unfamiliar with duty onboard a battleship. So it was now up to Captain Milligan, his officers and chiefs to train this new breed of battleship sailor.
Refresher Training (REFTRA) commenced in February 1985, and for 4 weeks, the Navy's Readiness Training Group out of San Diego evaluated the performance of her crew and material readiness of the battleship herself. It was during this time period that I reported onboard to perform active duty for training (ACDUTRA) attached to a Navy Reserve unit based in Trenton, NJ.
Here is where the story gets interesting. At the time I reported onboard the battleship, I was a Captain (promotable to Major) in the US Amy Reserve. I was a battleship aficionado, and managed to procure no cost orders to serve on the Navy's most decorated battleship. Captain Milligan approved my request, but now that I was standing on the New Jersey's Quarterdeck, I'm sure he wondered what I would be able to contribute during REFTRA.
To break the ice and to get to know me, Captain Milligan, and several other officers, had dinner the following evening at the famous Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. My knowledge about the Navy and battleships in particular must have impressed him. It was decided that I would fill-in for the battleship's Public Affairs Officer who was on leave. The battleship was scheduled to embark several hundred VIP's on a Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) guest cruise from San Diego to Long Beach in two days. My first assignment was to write the Captains's Welcome Aboard letter. The letter must have hit the mark, because I was given more and more increasingly responsible tasks to perform during the course of my ACDUTRA. Being the only person onboard in an olive drab uniform made my presence very conspicuous, so I'm sure most people had no idea who I was, or what I was doing here.
Captain Milligan was a great ship driver. When we arrived in Long Beach at the conclusion of the SECNAV guest cruise, the CO was on the 0-8 Secondary Con level. He told me he preferred mooring the 57,500 ton battleship from the 0-8 level verses the 0-4 Navigation Bridge because he could see the after part of the ship much better from there. He docked the 887' 7" long battleship with the same ease that you would parallel park your car. He performed the maneuver of getting the "Big J" underway with the same methodical skill and confidence. When I was on the bridge, especially during underway replenishment operations, Captain Milligan was very much the person in charge of the evolution. New Jersey was his 5th at sea command, and he definitely knew his business.
When it was time for me to depart the battleship, I was in the CO's Import Cabin for the final out briefing. Captain Milligan looked at me and said, "Urban, you are out of uniform. You really should be in Navy Service Dress Blues." We discussed the subject for a few minutes, and it was suggested that I investigate an inter-service transfer. He offered to send a letter of endorsement on my behalf, if I decided to pursue it.
When I returned to my Army Reserve unit, I did extensive research on the process involved applying for an inter-service transfer. I assembled the required documentation, and in my package to the Navy's Bureau of Personnel was a letter from now Admiral Milligan. I was subsequently notified that I was selected to become a Public Affairs Officer, at the rank of Lieutenant Commander, US Navy Reserve. I believe Admiral Milligan's letter had a considerable amount of influence on the Navy's decision.
After departing battleship New Jersey in February 1985, I only saw Admiral Milligan on two subsequent occasions. Once while I was on active duty assigned to battleship Wisconsin, and another time in July 2013 when both he and another former (BB-62) CO, Admiral Douglas Katz, USN (Ret.) were onboard their former command, now a floating museum in Camden, for a 1980's mini-crew reunion. Hosting both former CO's was quite an honor. Of course Admiral Milligan remembered my being onboard his battleship in an Army uniform 28 years earlier. He was pleased my inter-service transfer went through, and that he was able to help me achieve my goal. I imagine he helped many people that were fortunate enough to serve under his leadership during his Navy career. It defines the kind of person he was, and for that, I am eternally grateful.
Admiral Milligan was quick to point out that his time as CO of battleship New Jersey was the most memorable and rewarding assignment he had during his 30 year Navy career. Personally, I owe him an incredible debt of gratitude for his willingness to allow me, than an Army officer, to fill an important billet during a highly important training evolution for the battleship.
For this and other reasons, Richard D. Milligan will always be remembered as someone who definitely made a difference in my life. Rest well, skipper! The battleship New Jersey community and the Navy misses you.


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Media Mogul Byron Allen Confirmed for 2020 Radio Show
sbamericannews September 15, 2020
Washington, D.C. — Byron Allen, the founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, Byron AllenLLC/Entertainment Studios, will lead a conversation focused on his career and journey as an industry leader at the 2020 Radio Show, it was announced today. Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), the 2020 Radio Show digital experience is a week-long online event, taking place October 5 – 9, 2020.
Allen Media Group owns 16 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations and eight 24-hour HD television networks/streaming services with nearly 180 million subscribers. Entertainment Studios is also one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations.
Allen joins previously announced speakers, including radio host, best-selling author and personal finance expert Dave Ramsey and renowned public speaker, author and business leader Rishad Tobaccowala.
Radio Show will also feature a CEO town hall featuring CUMULUS MEDIA's Mary Berner, Entercom's David Field and iHeartMedia's Bob Pittman, moderated by NBC News Senior Business Correspondent and MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle.
Press registration is available at RadioShowWeb.com.
Veteran Sports Anchor Fred Roggin Celebrates 40th Anniversary With NBC4
"One Night in Miami" – Regina King's Directorial Debut!


The No. 4-ranked University of Colorado women's hockey team (17-5) split a two-game series with Midland University (12-15-2) this weekend at the CU Rec Center, with each team shutting out the other.
The Buffs began the two-game set with a 1-0 shutout victory of Midland on Friday evening. Forward Morgan Mciver tallied her third goal of the season during the second period to break the scoreless tie. It was the only goal necessary for the Buffs to beat the visiting Lady Warriors.
Junior goaltender Natalie Warnes stopped all 14 shots she faced to earn her fourth shutout of the season.
Colorado looked to carry the momentum into Saturday afternoon's Groundhog Day matinee matchup.
The Midland's competition proved enough to cool down Colorado's hot streak on home ice, where the Buffs are tied for the second-most home wins in the American Collegiate Hockey Association's (ACHA) women's Division I class. The Buffs ultimately fell to the Lady Warriors 2-0 in a tightly-contested matchup.
It was the first game that the Buffaloes were held scoreless all season long.
Despite Warnes' shutout the night before, with such a quick turnaround from Friday night's game to Saturday afternoon's, coach Ashley Rebeck opted to give her the day off. Sophomore goaltender Lexi Hartmann made the start in net for Colorado Saturday afternoon, stopping 28-of-29 shots in the loss.
The contest began just as Friday night's had ended, with the two teams exchanging chances throughout the game but unable to solve the defense of the opposing team. A penalty by Midland University eight minutes in gave Colorado an opportunity to take the lead, but the Buffs were unable to cash in on the advantage, similar to the game on Friday.
Colorado earned six power-play opportunities but were only able to pot one goal during Friday night's contest. Saturday afternoon, it was much of the same. The Buffs ended the series having converted just 1-of-12 power-play chances.
The Buffaloes were missing quite a few players this weekend due to illness or injury, something a few of the players cited as a reason for the poor power play performance.
Nefs mirrored the sentiment from her fellow teammate.
"We have a lot of players out sick and it was a rough week of practice. Our power play wasn't that great. We need to settle down more and take our time and we need to practice more." she said.
The Lady Warriors drew first blood 12 minutes into the first period when Midland's Tieryn Arens stuffed one in tight on Hartmann. It was Arens' 17th goal on the season.
Down by one, the Buffs spent the better part of the final six minutes of the first period in Midland's zone but were unable to find the back of the net, despite the flurry of shots on Midland's goaltender, McKenna Gehner, who allowed only one goal on 29 shots the night before and stopped all 26 shots she faced Saturday afternoon.
The first frame came to an end with the Lady Warriors holding a 1-0 lead. The score would remain that way until an empty-net goal with seven seconds left in the game.
The second period began how the first ended for Colorado. The Buffs provided plenty of sustained pressure in Midland's zone, until CU coughed up the puck at the blueline, providing a breakaway going the other way for Midland. Nefs chased the Lady Warrior down but tripped her up in the process, giving Midland their first power-play opportunity of the game.
Colorado killed the penalty with relative ease, however. The Buffs' penalty kill unit was one of the few bright spots this weekend, with the team finishing a perfect 7-of-7 between both games.
After a few minutes of back-and-forth play, the Buffaloes earned their fourth of six power-play advantages of the game with four minutes left in the second period. Ash took the puck end-to-end, hitting the crossbar in what was the Buffs' best chance of the entire game.
The bad luck was much of the same for the Buffs in the third period, as both teams swapped chance after chance. With nothing going for Colorado and the team still down by one, in a last-ditch effort, Rebeck pulled Hartmann with less than a minute left in the final frame.
Though the Buffs had the extra attacker on the ice, the team was still unable to beat Midland's goalie. The Lady Warriors put the Buffs on ice when they shot the puck in Colorado's empty net with seconds remaining to finish the game 2-0.
It was only the Buffs' fifth loss of the season.
Saturday's contest was the penultimate home game of the 2019 season for Colorado, which will now go on the road for a two-game set against the University of Minnesota next weekend.
The Buffs will return home and play their final game of the regular season at The Rec on Feb. 16 against intrastate rival University of Denver.


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Sega's esports-focused Puyo Puyo game, which will be known as Puyo Puyo Champions when it comes to North America, will be released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC via Steam, and Xbox One on May 7.
Puyo Puyo Champions was announced as Puyo Puyo eSports in Japan in September. The puzzle game features a "strong focus on global online competitive multiplayer," according to Sega, and uses the rules of Puyo Puyo 2 and Puyo Puyo Fever. Champions also includes a new eight-player tournament mode for local battles and a rich replay system. Players can pick from 24 characters from throughout the Puyo Puyo series.
The Puyo Puyo series has been released under a variety of names in North America, including Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for Sega Genesis, Kirby's Avalanche for Super NES, and Puyo Pop. The series crossed over with another classic puzzle game for 2017's Puyo Puyo Tetris.
Puyo Puyo Champions will cost $9.99.
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She has collections and individual drabbles scattered around cyberspace and is in the process of writing more.
Originally from the UK, she now lives by the sea in Turkey with her husband and this is probably what causes her lack of concentration. She can hear the waves lapping at all times, and has a tendency to leap into a bikini at any given moment - not a pretty sight.
She has been a writer for a great many years but has only recently decided to start publishing collections of her flash fiction.
Being able to bash out 100 - 500 words for a flash has never been a huge challenge for her but at some point it is her intention to move on to something a little longer - somewhere in the region of 30k words, anything more and she will lose the plot for sure.
As a flash fiction writer she has encountered quite a lot of negativity about her style and has had aspersions regarding her grammar cast at her. This goes over her head because she tells her stories in the way that they come to her.
Punctuation was never her strongest point so that's why someone else has control over that!
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Q: My NestJs exception interceptor does not seem to be doing anything I am trying to set up a global interceptor, to transform internal errors to http errors. It does not seem to be doing anything, I cannot even get a console.log to show. I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. Here is the relevant code
main.ts
import { Logger, ValidationPipe } from '@nestjs/common';
import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';
import { TransformInterceptor } from './transform.interceptor';
import { createData } from '../seeds/index';
import morganMiddleware from './middleware/morgan-middleware';
import { ErrorsInterceptor } from './middleware/error-handling/error-interceptor';

declare const module: any;

async function bootstrap() {
  const logger = new Logger();
  const app = await NestFactory.create(AppModule, {
    cors: true,
    logger: true,
  });
  app.useGlobalPipes(new ValidationPipe());
  app.useGlobalInterceptors(
    new TransformInterceptor(),
    new ErrorsInterceptor(),
  );
  app.use(morganMiddleware);

  const port = 3000;
  await app.listen(port);
  logger.log(`Application listening on Port ${port}`);

}
bootstrap();

error-interceptor.ts
    import {
  Injectable,
  NestInterceptor,
  ExecutionContext,
  CallHandler,
  HttpException,
} from '@nestjs/common';
import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { mapToHttpError } from './error-maps';

@Injectable()
export class ErrorsInterceptor implements NestInterceptor {
  intercept(context: ExecutionContext, next: CallHandler): Observable<any> {
    return next.handle().pipe(
      catchError((err) => {
        if (err instanceof HttpException) return throwError(err);
        const error = mapToHttpError(err);

        return throwError(new error());
      }),
    );
  }
}

error-maps.ts
import { UnauthorizedException } from '@nestjs/common';
import { TokenExpiredError } from 'jsonwebtoken';

export const mapToHttpError = (error) => {
  if (error instanceof TokenExpiredError) {
    return UnauthorizedException;
  }
  return error;
};

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
EDIT: I can confirm that the interceptor works on the controller level


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The Perfect Wrestler
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This piece originally appeared on Victory Journal.
By March 2015, wrestler Kyle Snyder was used to winning. He had gone 179-0 against high school competition and won the world under-20 championships at just 17. Then, in 2015, his freshman year at Ohio State, Snyder lost the NCAA 197-pound* final to Iowa State senior Kyven Gadson. Immediately afterward, Snyder addressed a group of OSU boosters and donors at the tournament hotel. Despite the fact that his dream of being a four-time NCAA champ was dead, Snyder said, "If this is the worst thing that happens to be in my life, I'm a really fortunate guy."
Snyder's loss was almost certainly the worst thing that happened to the rest of the world's men in his weight class. In the three years since, he's racked up three straight global gold medals, two undefeated NCAA seasons, and three NCAA titles. His 2015 world championship at 19 was the youngest ever by an American; so was his 2016 Olympic gold. His third world championship, though, in 2017, was by far the most impressive. The then-consensus best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world, Abdulrashid "The Russian Tank" Sadulaev, moved up a weight class for the express purpose of taking on Snyder; it seemed that Sadulaev was almost bored with his weight class. Snyder–Sadulaev was the tournament finale and would decide the men's freestyle team title.
USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender explains that "most of the matches that are highly anticipated, especially with bigger guys, tend to be really boring, technical, and just not a lot of scoring." Not this one. Only five seconds in, Snyder charged at Sadulaev, tried to push him out of bounds, and immediately got flipped over. Two-zero, Sadulaev. From there, Sadulaev subjected Snyder to a punishing series of assaults. Sadulaev tried to force Snyder out of bounds; Snyder snuck under him and picked up a point. Both wrestlers were "shooting"—trying to grab the other's legs—at a ridiculous rate. Then, barely a minute in, Sadulaev picked up Snyder by the knee and carried him out of bounds for a 3-1 lead. Snyder recognized that his relentless offensive strategy wasn't working, and he shifted to a slower pace and succeeded in pulling Sadulaev to the mat for a two-point takedown, making it a 3-3 tie heading into the final three-minute period. Witnessing the match unfold in front of him, one announcer breathlessly observed that "the difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be believable."
Sadulaev seemed to have taken total control of the match when, with two minutes left, he chased Snyder to the edge of the mat and took him down for a 5-3 lead. Snyder ended up on his knees twice after, narrowly averting disaster, but the score stayed at 5-3. (A takedown requires three body parts to be touching the mat.) Then, despite the fact that a 213-pound man had been pulling on his neck nonstop for five minutes, Snyder appeared to get a second wind. He may just have been letting Sadulaev tire himself out. Snyder shot at Sadulaev once and was barely held off; he shot again, this time pushing the Russian out of bounds. With 40 seconds left, it was 5-4, Sadulaev. But Sadulaev was clearly tired; he looked up at the clock. And then Snyder flipped Sadulaev onto his stomach to go up 6-5 and clinch the first men's team title for the United States since 1995—the year Snyder was born. Snyder was now the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world.
Kyle Snyder has two life goals: conduct himself as much like Jesus Christ as possible, and technically, creatively, and aesthetically master the sport of wrestling. The first is pretty straightforward, if by definition unattainable—though Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan speaks so effusively about how Snyder lives that he has to pull back and make it clear that Snyder is, in fact, not God.
The second is more elliptic: He wants to move beyond wins and losses and become the perfect wrestler. It's not that Snyder lacks a competitive streak. He sheepishly tells a story of when he lost a beach volleyball tournament to his father's team on a family vacation. Apparently, it was one aunt's fault, and Kyle told her that she "sucked" and that her effort was poor. But Snyder finds pursuing gold medals fundamentally boring. "Winning what I've won at a young age helped me realize that that doesn't completely fulfill you," Snyder says. "I always dreamed of being an Olympic champion, and then when I won the Olympics I woke up the next morning and I didn't feel any different." Kyle's younger brother, Kevin, also a wrestler on the Ohio State team, says, "If you want to win all the time, that's just a hard life to live. It's almost like when you win, it's a sense of relief. . . . Wrestling is a martial art, and martial arts, there are always the masters. In a kung fu movie, there's one guy who's the greatest, and that's who Kyle wants to be."
Because of this, there's a philosophical bent to the way Snyder trains. Ohio Regional Training Center head and OSU assistant Tervel Dlagnev, a two-time world bronze medalist whom Ryan calls the "Yoda of wrestling," is most deeply involved with Snyder's coaching. The 32-year-old Dlagnev, who can still hold his own against his charges on the mat, hates "suffer now and become a champion later" rhetoric. "I don't want him to look back on his career and say, 'I was legendary, but it sucked. I had no friends, I was miserable, but I did it.' That's such a clichéd story that's not conducive to real life," says Dlagnev. "I want him to love his time in the sport."
Snyder does too: "Sacrifice is what people do when they don't love what they're doing."
Both Snyder and Dlagnev agree that to master the sport, he needs to be more open, fluid, and aggressive. Dlagnev explains that maybe the biggest obstacle to Snyder becoming the perfect wrestler is that up to this point, his otherworldly combination of power and endurance has mostly led to winning. Snyder has more moves in his repertoire, but wrestling fans haven't seen them yet because he hasn't exactly needed them. During his freshman season, Snyder lost in the Big Ten final to Morgan McIntosh of Penn State. Shortly after that loss, Snyder came to Dlagnev and said he woke up in a panic after a dream where he had finished his wrestling career and realized that he had never touched his potential. Not that he had a dream where he didn't win the Olympics, or the NCAA meet, but that he, as Dlagnev puts it, "didn't see all of me."
The most striking thing about Kyle Snyder's physique is his back, which contains an enormous indent around his spine because the muscles on either side of it are so developed. Ryan says that when you hug Snyder, your entire hand fits in there. Because so much of wrestling starts with pulling on the opponent's head and neck, the strength of the muscles on the posterior chain—the back of the body—is vital. Ryan, who has been a Division I head coach for more than 20 years, says it's the strongest back he has ever seen.
But Snyder has never participated in the Ohio State strength-and-conditioning program. Instead, he credits his strength-and-conditioning guru, a family friend named Neil Serafenas, who was an elite shot putter. This is an unusual arrangement, but it suits him: "I think a lot of people are over-coached," he says. "I like the relaxed culture of, if you need help, go ask coach." Dlagnev is deeply involved with Snyder's technical and tactical preparations, but other than that, it's clear that Snyder makes a large amount of his own day-to-day decisions. He's not brash about it, saying he frequently consults with his parents and coaches, but admits, "I know myself better than anyone else on this earth."
Ryan and Snyder both give Serafenas an enormous amount of credit. Because of Serafenas's blend of spirituality and science, he says, "I've never wrestled anyone of my weight class that feels stronger than me . . . My system is so much better than theirs that even if they're taking [steroids], I'll be able to beat them." Serafenas also liberally incorporates spirituality into his coaching: "Neil talks to Him. He'll pray, ask what type of thing he needs to do." This suits Snyder. He was raised Catholic and went to Catholic high school, but says that he was too "immature" at the time for it to really set in. That changed during his senior year, when he moved from his family's home in Woodbine, Maryland, to train with the country's best wrestlers at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The USA Wrestling coaches Gene Davis, Brandon Slay, and Bill Zadick hosted a weekly Bible study that Snyder began attending. By his own admission, he might have never gone if Davis and Slay weren't Olympic medalists. But these conversations ended up changing Snyder's life. He now hosts his own weekly group at the apartment that he shares with his brother and his fiancée, Maddie Pack, a Syracuse soccer player whom he met in high school. Religion runs deep in American wrestling. Many of the best wrestlers in the country, and their coaches, are devout Christians—both Ryan and Snyder tell me that they do not believe humans evolved from apes. But there are outliers, and Snyder says that when he engages with them, his attitude is, "if you disagree, let's learn together." With a smile on his face, Snyder recounts the time at a training camp when a Team USA teammate told him that he would "never believe unless Jesus literally walked through the door, in his flesh, and shook his hand and said, 'Hi, I'm Jesus.'"
Snyder was paid $350,000 over his last three years at Ohio State for being good at wrestling; strangely, the NCAA knew about and blessed it. In the late 2000s, wrestling-obsessed billionaires Michael Novogratz and David Barry put huge sums in a pot now called the Living The Dream Medal Fund. At the high end, any American wrestler who won Olympic gold would get $250,000; a gold in the World Championship would net $50,000. These are eye-popping numbers for wrestling. There have always been a few meager endorsement contracts and USA Wrestling stipends available, but because they could earn more doing nearly anything else, many of the best Americans stopped competing entirely at a young age, like Cael Sanderson, or went into mixed martial arts after a short Olympic wrestling career, like Chael Sonnen, Ben Askren, and Daniel Cormier.
Part of Novogratz and Barry's motivation was that wrestling wasn't just struggling for relevance—it was facing extinction. In early 2013, the International Olympic Committee voted to remove the sport from the 2020 Olympics. This was largely blamed on wrestling's international governing body, FILA, which had corrupt leadership, a poor relationship with the IOC, and a mediocre product. (It became so toxic in the process that it changed its name to United World Wrestling the next year.) Under well-coordinated international pressure, FILA changed the competition rules, added opportunities for women, and purged widely reviled president Raphael Martinetti. Just six months later, those changes were enough for the IOC to vote the sport back in.
The same year, NCAA rules changed, allowing undergraduates to receive payment from national federations for Olympic medals. (Novogratz and Barry's fund routed payments through USA Wrestling to ensure compliance.) The payments made it easy for Snyder to stay in college, although he did consider turning pro at one point before ultimately listening to his father, who told him, "I didn't know you wanted to be the richest man in the world—I thought you wanted to be the best wrestler." His presence was unquestionably good for college sports, although the fact that the NCAA suddenly found some payments acceptable under amateurism wasn't lost on the reformers suing the NCAA, who have cited these payments in court. And it isn't lost on Snyder, who feels that "athletes should be able to make as much money as they can off their name. If Toyota wants to give a truck and a hundred thousand bucks to an Ohio State running back this year, let him do it."
In addition to the one-off bonuses and an endorsement contract with Rudis, a wrestling apparel company, the Ohio RTC pays Snyder $110,000 a year. (Rudis was cofounded by Jeff Jordan, the brother of ultra-conservative congressman Jim Jordan and the father of Snyder's teammates Bo and Micah Jordan. Multiple former Ohio State wrestlers have accused Jim Jordan of knowing that a school doctor sexually abused them while he was an assistant coach at the school.) All told, Snyder is easily one of the most well-compensated young American wrestlers ever. But he's making a tiny fraction of what he would if he followed the well-tread path into the UFC. In the fall of 2016, Snyder set off a minor media furor by tweeting "I want to fight" at the UFC after attending an event. At the time, UFC heavyweight champion and former wrestler Daniel Cormier said that Snyder was "as blue as a blue chip prospect gets in any sport." And it's not totally off the table. After a hand-fighting workout against Kevin during which the pair took turns slapping each other on the shoulder very hard and usually laughing when on the receiving end, Snyder offhandedly joked, "I could go in the UFC right now." But it's clear that he has no plans to do so, in the short or long term. He wants to wrestle in five Olympics, through 2032, when he'd be 37—still two years younger than Cormier is now.
Kevin Snyder might know the clearest reason of all for Kyle sticking to wrestling: "I don't think he likes getting punched in the face." The writer John Irving has waxed about wrestling's "safe return" rule, which requires wrestlers to bring their opponents safely to the mat after picking them up. Ryan calls wrestling "controlled violence" and contrasts it to MMA, where the objective is, as he puts it, to "concuss someone."
The Biblical phrase "iron sharpens iron" is unsurprisingly popular across a range of macho sports, but it actually offers real insight in wrestling, where there's no substitute for and little downside to practicing at full speed against the most formidable opponents possible. No amount of stultifying conditioning workouts or repetitive drills can serve as a substitute for the real thing.
At the beginning of the 2017–18 NCAA season, Snyder was on a collision course with Michigan behemoth Adam Coon, who presented a unique problem. Snyder wrestles against men his size internationally, but the lowest non-heavyweight classification in the NCAA is 197 pounds. The 6′ 6″, 285-pound Coon had redshirted the previous season and, allegedly, had grown in that time. Snyder, who is "just" 5′ 11″, 225, would have to go through Coon three times—a Michigan dual in February followed by the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments in March—to become the first man in 29 years to win three straight NCAA heavyweight titles.
Snyder searched the planet for one of the few men alive who could truly push him in practice. He found the ideal sparring partner in Turkish world and Olympic champion Taha Akgül, who is 6′ 4″, 265, and on any short list of the best wrestlers alive. Snyder direct-messaged Akgül on Instagram in English, Akgül used Google Translate to figure it out, and a mutually beneficial relationship was born. While the Ohio RTC pays for his lodging in Columbus, he's paid for his own flights to and from Turkey, so it's obvious that Akgül finds something beneficial in the arrangement. Akgül came to Columbus for his first stretch of training in February, and has been back several times since.
Snyder is studying Russian with a private tutor now. Wrestlers from Russia and nearby countries dominate the sport, and Snyder says, "If I can speak Russian, then I'll change wrestling in America forever, because I'll get all the Russians that are really good to come train here." In his limited conversations with Russian athletes, they say they want to. "Everyone that I've ever talked to over there, they're like: 'Yes! America's nice, man!'"
Maybe the Russians are ready to say America is so nice because they're yearning to be literally anywhere else while in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in January, when temperatures reach 30 below. Snyder has traveled there in the last three years to wrestle at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix, considered by some to be the hardest wrestling tournament in the world because the Russians have unlimited entries and a home-mat advantage. Going there during the collegiate season is in character for Snyder, who relishes the chance to wrestle the toughest matches possible. When the Russian Tank moved up to wrestle him, the American tweeted "It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and Sadulaev is coming up to 97kg."
Snyder won his last two Yarygins, making him the only American ever to win there twice. The first Coon match was less than two weeks after the 2018 Yarygin. Despite his usual ferocity, Snyder told me, "At the beginning of the season, I wasn't that excited about wrestling Adam because of how big he was." This is unusual language for Snyder. He's so self-assured that before his first senior world championships, as a 19-year-old who didn't even win the Big Ten just months before, he said, "There is no way that they can handle what I can." (Of course, this did end up being true.)
But again, Coon is big. At 6′ 6″, 285, he could be a legitimate NFL prospect, although he's two inches too tall to achieve his dream of being an astronaut. More saliently, he outweighs Snyder by at least 55 pounds. While Coon and Snyder were both "heavyweights," the gap between them was equivalent to seven weight classes' worth of difference. (The heaviest non-heavyweight class is 197 pounds; the heavyweight class is capped at 285. In the 55 pounds below 197, there are seven weight classes.)
Maybe it isn't exactly cutting-edge science to say that a wrestler is tired after flying to Siberia and back, but Ryan says that the program had internal biometrics showing Snyder was exhausted despite his claim that he felt great the week before the Michigan dual. Whether it was due to fatigue or the sheer absurdity of wrestling a man seven inches taller and sixty pounds heavier, Coon beat Snyder 3-1.
It was Snyder's first loss to a collegian since the 2015 NCAA final, and maybe worse, it was the exact type of low-scoring bruiser battle that Snyder and Dlagnev want to minimize. Coon, who opened up a 2-0 lead with a first-period takedown that would end up as half the total scoring, described the match as "two bears pawing at each other, trying to find that little inch of good position."
Coon was the perfect opponent for Snyder: incredibly smart and a size that he'd never face internationally. Why bother with him at all when the Russians in his weight class were enough trouble? And besides, the rewards for beating them were Olympic and world gold medals, not Big Ten and NCAA championships. For one, Coon represented Snyder's biggest loss in roughly a year, and he wanted to avenge it. But he also presented a unique intellectual challenge. Snyder and Dlagnev mostly say that Snyder's improvement will come from wrestling more aggressively—shooting more rather than relying on his near-unbeatable combination of strength and fitness. Beating Coon required the exact opposite adjustment: "Holding position, not shooting as much, picking and choosing, trying to score late in periods," according to Snyder.
In other words, Snyder's whole life is built around creating the most energetic and entertaining wrestling style anyone's ever seen, but winning a third straight NCAA heavyweight title would require the exact opposite. Beating Sadulaev took one of the greatest wrestling matches of all time, but beating Coon twice would be significantly more quotidian. Snyder avenged the first one, although barely, in a 4-2 overtime win at the Big Ten final. The NCAA final two weeks later in Cleveland would be the rubber match.
When Coon said that he and Snyder were two bears pawing at each other, the emphasis really was on pawing. Their matches look slow, but what's really happening is that they're competing on a razor's edge, and seeking out the tiniest low point or angle to attack. Wrestling journalist Andrew Spey says that when wrestlers "look like an arch with hands on each other's heads and elbows, there is a nearly imperceptible game within a game going on, like dozens of simultaneous rock-paper-scissors contests. If I pull on his elbow and he reacts, will that open up his opposite leg that I want to attack? Or will he see that coming and attack my opposite side?"
At the NCAA final, neither man scored in the first period. Snyder scored a lone point in the second. Coon tied it in the third, but it was obvious that neither man was eager to attack. With 25 seconds left, Coon blinked first and went for Snyder's leg; Snyder saw it coming and threw Coon to the ground. A 3-1 lead between these two—much less this late in a match—was like a 5-0 lead against anyone else, and Snyder had it. A man 25 percent larger than him couldn't stand between Snyder and the title he wanted.
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